PhD Award to Malgorzata Cyndecka

BECCLE’s Malgorzata Agnieszka Cyndecka, postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, UoB, has received the news that she has been awarded the prestigious European State Aid Quarterly’s award for best PhD dissertation since 2012 within the field of state aid.

Malgorzata has very newly received the news that she was awarded the prestigious award. There were a reported large number of entrants in the competition, and six finalists were chosen among these. Malgorzata shares the first prize with Rita Szudoczky of Austria. All the entrants were required to write an article summarizing the findings in their PhD dissertation. These six articles from the finalists will all be published in the quarterly.

Malgorzata will receive her award at the annual Autumn Conference European State Aid Law 2016 in Copenhagen on 1 December.

Malgorzata’s doctoral dissertation from 2015 bears the title ‘The Applicability and Application of the Market Economy Investor Principle’, and has newly been published in a revised version by the publishing house Kluwer Law International.